In Minato Mirai 21, the central business district of Yokohama City, old train tracks remodeled as a sidewalk pass through the modern arch-shaped Navios Yokohama Hotel, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan. Starting in 1983, a former shipyard was redeveloped into Minato Mirai 21 – the "Port of the Future in the 21st century" – which became the central business district of Yokohama. In this cleancut urban center, we attended the “World Quilt Festival in Yokohama 2024” at PACIFICO Convention Hall. Sakoku ("chained country") describes the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, under which during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited. As Yokohama was one of the first Japanese ports to be opened to foreign trade in 1859, Yokohama grew to become Japan's second largest city (over three million people). Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located 30 minutes south of Tokyo by train.
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